Hollywood Road

At Boston Logan International Airport, the crew led by Murphy and James Franco just walked out of the airport lobby and was surrounded by media reporters. Hundreds of reporters were almost crazy, first interspersed running, and then divided and surrounded. , And soon surrounded every well-known figure in the crew.

The closest encirclement is still with Murphy and James Franco.

Regardless of whether Murphy wanted to speak or not, these reporters threw over one question after another. The scene seemed extremely chaotic, and it was difficult to answer.

"Director Stanton, "Dark City" set a new North American box office record for the next weekend and broke the record of 400 million US dollars the fastest. How many records do you think will be broken in the future?"

"The Dark City" became the second film in the history of North American cinema to exceed $100 million at the weekend box office. Are you happy?"

"It is said that your next goal has been aimed at next year's Oscar, is it true?"

"Are you going to use this film to hit the best director Oscar?"

Questions came out in a mess, even if Murphy wanted to answer, there was no way, but under the **** of bodyguards, he got out of the car and got into the car.

But after the car started, the reporters still refused to leave and stuck on the road, like a hormone.

Murphy certainly knows why these reporters are so excited, and some of them chased from New York to Boston, all because this past weekend, "Dark City" once again wrote a record-breaking box office performance in North America.

In the three days of last weekend, "Dark City" easily won the box office of the day. Following Friday's harvest of 44.6 million U.S. dollars, it rebounded again on Saturday and won 45.2 million U.S. dollars. Although it declined on Sunday, There was also $36.8 million in receipts.

In this way, the box office totaled up to 126.6 million U.S. dollars in the three days of the weekend, which easily suppressed the 30.2 million U.S. dollars of "The Great Gatsby". While winning the North American box office leaderboard, it also broke the "Avengers". "The second weekend box office record of US$103 million in North America was set in the same period last year.

At the same time, "Dark City" also broke the US$400 million record in eight days, breaking the record of "The Avengers" breaking US$400 million in 14 days.

It is no exaggeration to say that this film has an unparalleled crazy momentum. Since its release, it has almost refreshed all the box office records in North American film history.

Within ten days of its release, the North American box office of "Dark City" totaled 466.84 million U.S. dollars, which has reached the threshold of 500 million U.S. dollars in North America. According to CinemaScore's forecast, the latest Thursday and the fastest Wednesday, the "Dark City" "City" will enter the ranks of the US$500 million club in North America.

In the face of this crazy box office trend, more and more people are beginning to believe that "Dark City" can completely challenge the position of "Avatar" and "Titanic" in the North American box office list. Murphy is very hopeful to break James -Cameron's monopoly on the top two North American box office charts.

All these are the direct reasons for the craziness of media reporters.

Murphy led the crew to Boston. Instead of going to the hotel, he first went to an IMAX theater near Boston’s Central Plaza to participate in a live fan interaction event jointly sponsored by IMAX and Twentieth Century Fox, similar to the previous publicity in other cities. The post-screening publicity in Boston is nothing more than running media announcements, interacting with movie fans, and participating in popular local radio and television programs.

After participating in the fan interaction, Murphy and the crew came to the Hilton Hotel in Boston. It was already noon. An assistant from the crew gave him a fax just sent by Twentieth Century Fox. The latest overseas box office statistics have been released. Up.

The North American box office of "Dark City" was a big hit in the first weekend, affecting many countries and regions. Today, there is a very obvious situation in the world film market. For movies that hit the North American box office, the box office in other regions is generally quite good. At least it won't be much worse.

Last week, the scale of the film’s overseas screenings was expanded to more than 90 countries and regions, and more than 85 percent of the markets, including Brazil, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, which were previously screened. All have won the throne of the weekly box office champion, and in the more than 30 newly released markets, they have won the first place in the weekly box office list without exception!

This week, "Dark City" received another 372.6 million US dollars overseas!

Together with the US$126.6 million harvested in North America, the global box office totaled US$1.110.28 million!

Whether it is North American media or overseas mainstream media, in the face of the movie-watching frenzy created by "Dark City", they agree that the global box office of the film is extremely promising to reach 2 billion US dollars!

But not all about this film is good news. Twentieth Century Fox also sent Kara Fess a not-so-good news that "Dark City" was unable to pass a certain big scissors on the other side of the Pacific. Review.

If it were placed five years ago, Twentieth Century Fox would not care too much. After all, even if a Hollywood movie can sell superbly there and get tens of millions of dollars in the box office, Hollywood can only get 100%. The box office share of No. 13 can be said to be relatively meagre.

But last year, China and the United States just conducted a new round of WTO agreement negotiations, including the part about movies. The number of sub-account films imported from Hollywood on the other side of the Pacific has risen to 34, and the box office share has doubled to 2%. fifteen!

Unlike other overseas markets, this 25% of the box office share is after deducting the cost of publicity and distribution and taxes, which means that it can basically be regarded as profit.

This latest agreement between China and the United States has also prompted Hollywood, especially the Big Six companies, to pay more attention to the market on the other side of the Pacific, and to want to push super commercial masterpieces into that market.

Can't pass the scissor review, Murphy can't do anything about this, can't cut the film to pieces for this, right?

For this kind of thing, 20th Century Fox still needs to find a way to public relations. After all, the standard of Big Scissors is alive, not static.

Murphy's mind is still on the North American promotion of the film, and is not distracted by these things.

At the same time, Gal Gadot left Europe with the crew, came to Australia, and began a publicity journey in the Far East.

"This is a magical country."

When the Gadot flew from Brisbane to Sydney, Margot Robbie sat opposite Gal Gadot, "Wild animals are flooded, shall we go hunting together?"

Gal Gadot shrugged, "This time? No, we have a tight schedule and we don't have time."

"We can sneak out." Margot Robbie's words were full of temptation. "Don't let other people know, just let us go out for a day and go hunting on my farm! Don't you know, now this time Duan, it is when the Australian government is hunting kangaroos. As long as they have a special license, they can hunt kangaroos."

She said triumphantly, "Our farm happens to have such a license."

Hearing these words, Gal Gadot was quite surprised, "Isn't kangaroo a symbol of Australia? I remember that Australia also has kangaroos on its national emblem. The government still allows hunting?"

"Of course! This is true, you can ask David if you don't believe it."

Seeing Gal Gadot still puzzled, Margot Robbie simply explained, "There are many experts who think that too many kangaroos will talk about the ecological environment!"

She said softly, “Kangaroos have basically no natural enemies in Australia. Although there used to be a large number of species at the top of the food chain in Australia, such as the Tasmanian tiger. However, over-hunting has made them extinct, and then the colonists cleared them like dingoes. Such natural enemies. Now, the vegetation is a granary with abundant stocks. There are a lot of grass and water, but kangaroos have very few natural enemies, except for cars."

"Forget it." Gal Gadot shook his head, "I'll wait until the opportunity arises."

After meeting Murphy, although she is no longer a strict qualityist, she still repels hunting.

Margot Robbie grumbled deliberately, "You, like Murphy, are full of work."

Continuous work, she is a bit tired, and want to relax, and the film is now full of word of mouth, let alone active publicity, the media are scrambling to report news related to "Dark City", those touted comments sometimes She felt a little embarrassed when she saw it.

Like when they were in France, the French media touted that "Dark City" was the most successful Hollywood movie, and Murphy was the most successful young Hollywood director. He and "Dark City" made other similar movies look like Stupid and childish in stupidity, all weak.

The British media believe that "The Dark City" is indeed a sharp production, ambitious, and it will be a great epic.

And the Australian media in her hometown, not reluctant to fall behind their European counterparts, praised "Dark City" for being strong, persuasive, intoxicating, and completely conquering the audience. Murphy Stanton is even more talented. director!

Margot Robbie admits that these media touts do have some truth, but they are a little bit too much...

The plane quickly arrived in Sydney. When rushing to the hotel, Margot Robbie and Gal Gadot made a car, and as soon as they got on the car, they raised the baffle of the nanny car to isolate the front and rear compartments.

"Are you really not interested in hunting?" Margot Robbie asked again.

Gal Gadot shook his head, "No interest at all."

"My dear..." Margot Robbie moved closer to Gal Gadot and said to her ear, "I think you are used to being a prey, so you don't like hunters."

"What?" Gal Gadot turned to look at her, "What are you kidding about?"

Margot Robbie stared at Gal Gadot, "Isn't it? You've always been Murphy's prey. You have been hunted arbitrarily by him. You have forgotten how to be a hunter, right?"

Gal Gadot instantly understood what she meant, and couldn't help rolling her eyes. She didn't mind talking about this with Margot Robbie, after all, she had discussed it many times before.

"Do you think people like Murphy..." She shrugged, "Will you be my prey?"

Margot Robbie didn't answer, but instead said, "You can find the prey that suits you!"